Secretary-General visits Turkey

  


 

OSCE Summit, Istanbul

18-19 November 1999

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) with Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway and Chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). (UN Photo ESD323)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Bernard Kouchner (left), his Special Representative for Kosovo. (UN Photo ESD324)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (centre, below screen) addressing the OSCE Summit in Istanbul. (UN Photo ESD325)

Group shot of participants in the OSCE Summit. (UN Photo ESD326)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Walter Schwimmer (left), Secretary-General of the Council of Europe. (UN Photo ESD327)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Martti Ahtissaari (left), the President of Finland. (UN Photo ESD328)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Mohamed Benaissa (left), the Foreign Minister of Morocco. (UN Photo ESD329)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Robin Cook (left), Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. (UN Photo ESD330)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Jacques Chirac (right), the President of France. (UN Photo ESD331)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (second from right) with Glafcos Clerides (third from right), the President of Cyprus. (UN Photo ESD332)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Romano Prodi (left), President of the European Commission. (UN Photo ESD333)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with George Robertson (left), the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO). (UN Photo ESD334)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Costas Simitis (left), the Prime Minister of Greece. (UN Photo ESD335)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Raouf Denktash, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, at the Conrad Hotel in Istanbul. (UN Photo ESD336)

 

 

United Nations Tent Cities for Earthquake Victims

19 November

In the afternoon, the Secretary-General and Mrs. Annan flew by helicopter to the earthquake site at Izmit-Kosekoy, where they visited Kirazlidere and Mehmetcik, two of 100 tent cities in the area which are currently housing some 70,000 people.

Elisabeth Lindenmayer (centre), Special Assistant to the Secretary-General, with two children at the Kirazlidere tent city. (UN Photo ESD337)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) greets a young child at the Kirazlidere tent city, as Mrs. Nane Annan (left) looks on. (UN Photo ESD338)

Mrs. Nane Annan (left) and the Secretary-General (off camera, left) greet a young child at the Kirazlidere tent. (UN Photo ESD339)

A grandmother and grandchild at the newly opened Kirazlidere tent city. (UN Photo ESD340)

A young boy trying to get a look at the Secretary-General, at Kirazlidere. (UN Photo ESD341)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right) speaks with children at the Mehmetcik tent city. (UN Photo ESD342)

A group of children at the newly opened Kirazlidere tent city. (UN Photo ESD343)

A young boy at the Kirazlidere tent city. (UN Photo ESD344)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (at podium) for the opening of the Kirazlidere tent city. (UN Photo ESD345)

 

  

Ankara, 22 November

 

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) at the Turkish Grand National Assembly, with Yildirim Akbulut, Speaker of the Assembly. (UN Photo ESD346)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan participates in wreath laying ceremony at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. (UN Photo ESD347)

Wreath laying ceremony at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. (UN Photo ESD348)

View of the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, during wreath laying ceremony. (UN Photo ESD349)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) with Bulent Ecevit (right), the Prime Minister of Turkey. Looking on are the Secretary-General's Deputy Spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva (rear left), and Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Kieran Prendergast. (UN Photo ESD351)

Secretary-General Kofi Annan with Suleyman Demirel (right), the President of Turkey. (UN Photo ESD352)

 


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